[GNC] MacOS Catalina Gnucash 3.7 won't start

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 27, 2019, at 12:17 PM, Chris Martin <clm1492 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
>     I've researched the mailing list and the bug lists and seem to have
> run into a problem that is not described there.  After updating MacOS to
> Catalina, my existing gnucash application would just hang when started
> without opening any windows or returning any error messages.  Thinking that
> this was just because I was using an older version of gnucash I downloaded
> gnucash 3.7 and copied it from the dmg into my Applications folder.  When I
> tried to start it now, still the icon would just bounce and bounce with no
> windows or error message.  Eventually, after a few minutes, it stopped
> bouncing and the os labeled the process as "not responding".  Further
> puzzled, I force-quit and tried running it from the command line.
> ./Gnucash didn't return any error messages, so in the interest of trying to
> get a trace file I started adding command-line options.  Even when I run
> ./Gnucash --debug --extra I still get no output on stdout, stderr, nor a
> trace file and the process just hangs and never terminates on its own.
> Eventually, I have to kill it with cntrl-c.  I've tried downgrading to
> gnucash 3.5 and 3.6 but I get exactly the same result.  In Systems
> Preferences, I've given gnucash "Full Disk Access" just in case Catalina's
> new disk security scheme was blocking it ... alas no change.  As a
> last-ditch effort I tried running it with sudo, but no luck there either.
>     I'm confused and puzzled and would welcome any suggestions that any of
> you might have.

Is anything written to the trace file (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile)?

Regards,
John Ralls